Directed-Energy Weapons To Arm Unmanned Craft
The U.S. Air Force intends to put a high-power microwave weapon on an advanced version of its unmanned strike aircraft by 2012. This reflects a keen new interest by Congress and the Pentagon in the increasingly attractive combination of unmanned aircraft--which means fewer U.S. aircrew casualties in...
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